Girl Asleep

Name: Girl Asleep
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Family
Released: September 23, 2016
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 67

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: September 23, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Greta Driscoll's bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta's flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place—a strange world that’s a little frightening and a lot weird, but only there can sheGreta Driscoll's bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta's flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place—a strange world that’s a little frightening and a lot weird, but only there can she find herself. [Oscilloscope]… Expand

Director: Rosemary Myers

Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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Eddie Cockrell

Aug 17, 2016

Girl Asleep is an exuberant example of imaginative filmmaking that takes its cues from imagination and talent — with nary a focus group in sight. Read full review

Sarah Ward

Aug 17, 2016

Myers crafts an effervescent yet astute splash of teen life that delights the eyes, warms the heart and tickles the funny bone in equal measures. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Oct 6, 2016

This is one of those little movies that stays with you, the announcement of an original voice worth watching. It’s a quirky, magical delight. Read full review

Harry Windsor

Aug 17, 2016

Girl Asleep might be about an awakening, but it’s not a sexual awakening, and this is one teen comedy in which, at long last, the geek doesn’t get the girl. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 22, 2016

The color riot, the polyester/shag décor and the cartoon portrayals detract. Girl Asleep thinks it’s a stylishly resonant fairy tale about identity when the primary takeaway is an exquisitely curated slide show. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Sep 28, 2016

Never betraying an iota of lived experience, it trots out tropes seen in dozens of movies and sitcom episodes (the embarrassing dad, the big party, the fictional rock star crush, etc.), which can ring true only because they’ve been in circulation for decades. Read full review

The Playlist Gary Garrison

Sep 27, 2016

For all the moments of visual flair and earnest fun, it’s a film so indebted to Anderson (among obvious others) that it never manages to become something of its own. Read full review

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DaisyFannng

Sep 26, 2016

When I decided I wanted to go and see Girl Asleep, it seemed like the perfect day for it. The sky outside was so dark and cloudy it seemed as if the weather was personally making it his job to spoil any fun that might have been had on a public holiday Monday. I made my choice of movieWhen I decided I wanted to go and see Girl Asleep, it seemed like the perfect day for it. The sky outside was so dark and cloudy it seemed as if the weather was personally making it his job to spoil any fun that might have been had on a public holiday Monday. I made my choice of movie accordingly – Girl Asleep was billed as a coming-of-age film about a teenager approaching her fifteenth birthday, not wanting to leave her childhood behind.

The film starts just like you expect it to. Our main character, Greta, struggles to fit in at her new school and rebels against her mother attempting to throw her a childish birthday party. The film then devolves into something bizarre, incredibly funny and jarringly nervous all at once. It is laden with symbolism that makes it relatable to all teenagers, and turns fears of sex, bullying, social situations and being yourself into something tangible.

Girl Asleep is highly stylised – Neo Gothic, German Expressionism and Surrealist cinema all blend to make it something that the average movie-goer could find very unfamiliar. The dialogue and cinematography style is deliberately stilted, vibrant and just plain creepy. As I was watching it, I was reminded of other films I’d seen – Moonrise Kingdom, The Babbadook, and Where The Wild Things Are. This is no surprise, as the director of the latter film also created Girl Asleep.

Though it might seem bizarre to even the most open-minded, Girl Asleep is a movie I cannot recommend enough. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year, and if you want to step out of your comfort zone, head to a Palace Cinemas movie theatre and go see it.… Expand

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yezo

Jan 15, 2017

The movie is ok. The plot went a bit slow. I feel like it wants to be artistic, fantasy stylish . I feel like this is one of the movies I walked out and felt puzzled. It is not a terrible movie but not great either.

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LeZee

Aug 10, 2017

Greta in woodland!

This is a short Aussie film, kind of inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland', but originally based on the stage play of the same name. A teen comedy set in the 70s and revolved around a birthday party. So, newly moved into the town, Greta, finds hard to make friends, except aGreta in woodland!

This is a short Aussie film, kind of inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland', but originally based on the stage play of the same name. A teen comedy set in the 70s and revolved around a birthday party. So, newly moved into the town, Greta, finds hard to make friends, except a boy. Entering 15th, her family wants to throw a big birthday party inviting her new schoolmates, against her will. On the occasion, something goes wrong and the next minute, she's in a strange place with strange events and people. Her adventure begins to return home and the party she had left behind in halfway which revealed in the rest of the film.

I thought it was a children's and family film, but some of the references like relating to sex was a bold move. Though nothing was serious, if you are not considering the matter to the deep. It was just like any teen film, a simple topic. Creatively enough, but not impressive enough film. Those 70s were the plus point, especially for a comedy, that timeline is always so funny.

Decent performances and filmmaking, should have been improvised the screenplay. But my guess is the budget. It is a small cost film, but if they had better financing, surely they would have pulled it off so much better than this. Now it is an average coming-of-age comedy- fantasy, but worth a watch if you are not forcing yourself into it.

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